The photographs in these collages were taken in June, but assembled in September and October. I think they are an attempt to make sense of Pont-Aven as a space of social relations, rather than simply a site of artistic production.
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The assemblages generally progressed from large and expansive to small and particular, as I found the photos that worked best in the large pieces and used the discards to make the smaller works. The last collage is my favorite; there is a sense of movement, as the photographs are read sequentially. More importantly, however, the repititious pattern of white, black, and brown, and the movement of the black shoe into the brown paper, the way that raw sienna holds the slate black of the shoe, suggest the abstractions I was working with in Pont-Aven.
This collage was made from photographs on the Damen bus in Chicago:
